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From: Surbhi Palande <Surbhi.Palande@canonical.com>
To: ext4 development <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: question on sync()
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:29:17 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1270052957.26517.24.camel@subu> (raw)

Hie,

While looking at fs/sync.c :: sync(), I found out that:

1) sync() first calls wakeup_flusher_threads() which ultimately calls
bdi_alloc_queue_work() with WB_SYNC_NONE for every bdi in the bdi_list.

2) sync() immediate then calls sync_filesystems(0) which does the same
thing - it calls writeback_inodes_sb() which finally calls
bdi_alloc_queue_work() with WB_SYNC_NONE for every bdi corresponding to
every filesystem.

If it is possible, then I wanted to know why there are effectively two
calls which ultimately call bdi_alloc_queue_work() with WB_SYNC_NONE
twice?

Thanks!

Warm Regards,
Surbhi.





             reply	other threads:[~2010-03-31 16:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-31 16:29 Surbhi Palande [this message]
2010-04-01 19:54 ` question on sync() Jan Kara

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